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Chapter 19: Misstep
🕑 Added 2024-03-19 15:45:31 +0000 UTCYou have to expect that some stuff hits and some don't. Still, it doesn't make it any easier to take as this and Path of Storms is popular. I'm grateful for that, indeed I am, but I wish the same could be said for Life of a Hero, as that entire cursed existence series has been dropping off. Also, fanfiction.net was down last Friday, so I couldn't post the chapter of More than You Think There, but it did go up on Ao3 just fine. It should be up now, as I don't touch posting on weekends.
As for this chapter, it was easy to write, but there is a bit of a twist near the end, something that will mark in its own way, another shift in the storytelling as it feeds into something set up in the previous chapter, that being how terrifying Izuku can be when angered. After all, we all know the idea that pissing off a nice guy is a bad idea as they don’t get angry often, but when they do, Lord have mercy on you.
Chapter 19: Misstep
While Honenuki and Tetsutetsu had all but cleared the landslide zone, Midoriya, Shiozaki, and Tsuburaba cleared the conflagration zone. In the mountain zone, the trio sent there had little issues as Monoma dodged another attack. The only thing moving faster than his body was his mouth.
"Wow, that one is even weaker than the others. Are you getting tired? You must be after how many attempts to land a single hit end with failure. But is that such a bad thing? Sure, you're all grown adults and as tough as the streets could make you, and we're just students, but we're not just any bunch of students, you know." Monoma couldn’t stop talking as he dodged another attack, tripping the villain in the same action.
While he loved his commentary, thinking it brought some mood to the situation, their opponents were sick of it as he started when they dropped in. They thought he'd shut up once they defeated them. But over 10 minutes had passed, and not one of these brats was even injured, so to their annoyance, Monoma kept talking. “For the love of God, will someone shut that kid up?!”
“He just keeps on talking!” Someone pulled some rock from the mountainside with their quirk and fired it at them, but Rin dodged it. Monoma, who copied that same villain's quirk, merely countered it with rock fire of his own. He then used the dust as a cover to launch some rocks towards two other villains, nailing one in the head and knocking her out while another got gut-checked.
“What? What’s wrong with a little banter between opponents? We can all be civil here, can’t we?” Monoma smirked, knowing it pissed them off, but he couldn’t help it. These guys were barely a challenge, lesser than the robots U.A. used during the entrance exam. "I mean, sure, I would normally be more focused and excited about your quirks, but I've copied 7 of them. Let me tell you, you'll all be real unimaginative.”
Monoma proved this by using a copied strength booster to grab a villain, pick them up over his head and toss them into a crowd before immediately swapping to a copied blade arms quick to block the swing of someone with a machete and cut another's club in two, leaving him with just a handle.
He wasn't the only one having little issues, as Komori might have been the smallest person on that mountain, but her mushrooms kept the villains off-balanced. If she let them grow enough over them, they found themselves mushroom-covered messes barely able to fight. Some just freaked out, seeing others looking like a special kind of zombie, and gave up, letting Monoma or Rin knock them out.
"If his mouth was a spore-releasing shroom, this entire place would be covered in pretty mushrooms." She giggled as it seemed over the top, but she liked how eccentric and showboating Monoma could be when he wasn't talking smack about class A. If she didn't know any better, she'd say he wanted to be an idol-type hero like her.
Jumping back from an attack, Rin fired his scales at the villain, who cursed as they brought up a hand to block their face, giving him time to get in close again and kick them in the chest, sending the larger man flying. “He’s just taking the chance to cut loose, but he shouldn’t really focus on the task at hand!” He said that the second part was louder to get Monoma's attention.
“Oh, come now, I’m focused,” Monoma turned to him, only to be grabbed by someone—a man who looked to be made from stone blocks. “Oh?” Monoma sounded as if he didn't feel scared in the slightest—not then; he had copied a limb expansion and porcupine quirk minutes ago.
“Finally, I got you-!” Before he could use any of those and make this man’s day worse than he was, he was smashed over the head by an air bat from a surprised arrival. Standing over the defeated villain, the air-shaping student gave them all thumbs up.
“Sup.” Tsuburaba
"Hey, Tsuburaba. Did you handle your villains already?" Komori giggled, feeling easier than before now that they had extra help. Before he answered her question, Tsuburaba took a deep breath and created an air wall between them and the remaining villains, boxing them in for Monoma and Rin to fire on them via scales and rock, made all the worse as the two surfaces made perfect staging grounds for Komori to grow her mushrooms.
“Yup, I got sent to the flame zone with Shiozaki and Midoriya. We handled that a little way ago and split up.” Tsuburaba replied, gesturing towards the zone in question, mildly surprised that there wasn't any evidence of flames on its rook after Midoriya set off a firestorm there.
"These guys really didn't do their homework. Would he even feel burns if they sent Midoriya to the flame zone?" Monoma tutted the villains, who weren't now lying on the ground, covered in bruises and mushrooms, as their number had been cut down to just half.
"I wouldn't know, but a word to the wise: Midoriya and Koharu can be insanely powerful when they want to be." Tsuburaba shivered when he recalled how…inhuman he sounded when he called the villains out. It was like he was less of a boy and more of a fire.
"Noted," Rin stated, but with their attention elsewhere, none noticed the new villain coming out of the ground.
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“Now or never!” Tokage yelled as she grabbed Shishida with both arms and legs to support his weight and lifted him away from the sinking ship. She had hoped for more time to think, but the villains around them had gotten impatient with them.
"I feel so useless right now," Shishida muttered as he couldn't contribute even a little to this. Not only could he not fight in the water against foes in their element, but his sense of smell was nearly useless as long as the villains remained submerged.
"We just had a bad hand, that's all, Shishida," Tokage said to him before pulling with her weight to avoid the massive claw made from water that passed by them.
“Crap!” Turning to the waters, they saw that the villain who had sunk their boat was the culprit, as he created another equally massive hand from the zone's water to attack.
“You think you can get away by just flying? Not on my watch!” He laughed at them.
“But it will be one mine,” Only for someone to cut through that as from the water, what looked like a swarm of snakes approached the villains, only to burst out and be revealed to be dozens of vines. Looking to the source of them, the two saw Shiozaki, waist deep in water by the edge with her hair, plunged into it, attacking the villains and quickly capturing them on mass. “There is plenty of water here, a great location for me quirk to rejuvenate after the gauntlet of flames.” A godsend if she hadn’t seen one after the damage she took to her vines earlier.
Zooming over, they landed close to her, with Tokage putting herself back together as she hugged her fellow green-haired girl. "Shiozaki, man, I'm so happy to see you; I could kiss you!"
“Please don’t.”
"Being here means you managed to handle your villains, yes?" Shishida asked, relieved that aid came and a little intimidated by how Shiozaki was handling the issue that neither of them could, as she had already captured and restrained most of the villains, leaving just a few fighting while the rest tried to flee.
“Correct, I was sent to the flame zone along with Tsuburaba and Midoriya, but we managed to defeat most of them and escaped before we split up," Shiozaki explained as she captured the last of the villains, at least those brave enough to fight her.
“Where are they now?” Tokage asked, not wanting to assume, but if the zones were 50/50, there were still others with people who could be struggling like they were just now.
“Tsuburaba went to the mountains to assist anyone there while Midoriya made a dash for the plaza to aid Vlad King against his villains," Shiozaki replied, her gaze going in that direction where she could still make out the feint sounds of fighting.
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Midoriya made it to the plaza in record time, leaving a small burnt trench in his wake. Having arrived without making a scene, the villains hadn't noticed him as he hid from view to observe how things were going before he jumped in. And it would be fair to say that Vlad was that good. Around the place were the bodies of villains he already handled, and from what he could see, the man was still going strong, but despite having at least 2 dozen villains down for the count, there were still over 50 more in play.
"He's just as cool as I thought he'd be," Koharu's gaze lingered on the body of a man who had a heteromorphic type quirk that made him look like a deer. "No, Koharu, people don't eat others. They're still alive; they just knocked out." Koharu glanced back at him and reminded him that they didn’t plan to fight, so he chose not to eat as much during lunch for both of them.
"Well, we can find you something to eat later. I'm a little hungry myself. Maybe that big move earlier wasn't the best idea.” Midoriya mused. He had a little over half his normal fuel reserves right now, but that should be enough. He saw his chance to get involved as the hand villain, and the thing he brought with him hadn't moved or noticed them. That was good, as Koharu and him agreed that a quick ambush was their best bet.
Rushing in from behind his cover, the hand villain saw him out of the corner of his eye and seemed surprised to see him, having not seen him in this form. That was good; it gave him a couple more seconds to close the distance and leap towards the two. The hand villain was fast and easily dodged, but Izuku hadn't been aiming for him. His sights were on the lumbering beast that didn't even react to him as he wrapped himself around it, his tail curling around its body as he heated himself up to burn it into submission.
“What the hell? Where did this newbie come from?” The hand villain yelled, seeing that Nomu had been captured by what looked to be a rare enemy.
"Midoriya, what are you doing here?" Vlad yelled at him, but he was unable to get close as the villains formed a wall between them.
Tightening his hold and increasing the temperate, Midoriya replied. "I couldn't just leave you to fend for yourself. The rest of us got sent to the different zones, but I don't know where we ended up." Something was wrong; this thing wasn't reacting to his flames; even when Koharu wrapped herself around its neck and transformed, its gaze remained as empty as ever. There wasn't even the instinctual twitch or flinch from being cooked like this. He knew that he never had an issue with it and would like to see others being the same, but his therapist said he was an exception.
But that seemed false as even with its skin and muscle burning up, the beast didn't make a sound, which only fuelled his theory that it wasn't human and that he needed to handle it now.
That would be easier said than done, as the hand villain growled. "Damn, this kid is way too OP for this level," They stated before they moved. Faster than Midoriya or Koharu could perceive or react, the villain was up close to them, his hand reaching for his stone face. Midoriya's breath hitched in shock, but he was saved when a blood spear passed between the spaces, forcing the hand villain to retreat. They both turned to see the source, Vlad, who quickly made another blood construct. This was a club to handle the villains in front of him, but his eye never moved from Izuku or the Hand guy.
This clearly frustrated the hand villain, as Midoriya and Koharu had the chance to try to cook the beast, burning through muscle till they could hopefully reach the bone. If they could cripple it, then it could be handled. "Nomu, just kill the brat!" The hand villain yelled, which confused Midoriya; surely this thing couldn't do that, but he was proven wrong when the beast moved. What shouldn't be possible with the intensive deep burns, the Nomu shrieked like a banshee and flexed.
Its's muscles, muscles that should have been crippled by damage, moved with far strength that Izuku knew was possible, forcing him to loosen his grip in this contest of power as even transformed, whatever this thing seemed to be stronger than him. He tried to counter this surprise by increasing his heat, nearly bursting into flames. Still, he saw that the damage being done was healing faster than he could damage it at this stage.
He didn’t get the chance to act on that because the Nomu managed to grab onto him and pull, forcing him off and tearing off a large chunk of his scales, exposing the emerald lava-like muscle beneath. Midoriya grasped in pain from that, which turned into a cough when the beast bashed him in the chest, shattering many more scales and sending him crashing into the water foundation, its wall breaking on himself and leaving him half submerged in the water, which only added to his pain as it cooled him.
“Midoriya!” Vlad called out to him, but the Nomu didn't let up. The beast jumped towards Midoriya to finish the job as it had been told.
“Serpent’s Fireball!” Only to get a fireball to the face, knocking its trajectory off as it crashed to the ground. Part of its face burned off but was rapidly healing. The same could be said for Midoriya, who crawled out of the destroyed fountain, his missing stone scales reforming as he stood up and let out a thick fog of smoke from his mouth. Midoriya was a little ticked off now, if he was honest with himself. Not only did this monster overpower him, but he had the gall to try and cool him off?! That hurt!
The Nomu’s vacant eyes meet his absent ones, the water around him evaporating from the heat as the last of his damage healed. Firing another fireball, more prominent than before, towards the Nomu, the braindead creature dodged the attack. It rushed him, its speed also proving to be vastly greater than his own as he grabbed his head, lifting him up and slammed him into the pavement hard enough to create a crater. The beast repeated this over and over, the crater getting more prominent with each impact, more potent than the last in its attempt to smash his head to pieces, but Izuku wasn't about to just lay down and die as his tail, which the beast wasn't paying attention to whipped around and impaled it in its exposed brain.
It wasn't enough to kill it, not with such a decisive healing factor, but its immense unnatural strength. Still, the blow from his heated stone tail did destroy its motor functions. The monster of whatever devil's science dropped like a sack of flour, allowing Midoriya to get its hand off his face. This revealed that his head and hood had been severely damaged, with sections of both missing even as they regenerated.
Growling, Midoriya decided that he should end this. "You're not even human or an animal. I don't know what you are, but all that means is that I don't need to hold back from you! Serpent’s Fireball!” He blasted the Nomu point blank with a fireball, even stronger than the first one, knocking the still regenerating Nomu away from him where it landed on its black, its entire front not so much cooked as its flesh was burnt black, including its face and parts of its brain.
He did that, and the sight of the Nomu stunned those watching him. From his teacher, who had never thought that Midoriya was capable of such, to the villains who nearly shat themselves thinking that they could be next, to the Hand villain, who was furious that this kid didn't seem to care for the fact hero characters don't have the option to use lethal force. Lastly, to Shiozaki, Tokage and Shishida, who quietly made their way over. However, Shiozaki wasn't as surprised as her two classmates as they had talked about this. While gruesome, it wasn't a creature of God, so she could stomach such brutality.
Izuku didn't register any of this as he finished regenerating his damage. He was irritated that he was down to around a 4th his normal reserves thanks to how much regeneration he had to pull. Turning to the rest of the villains, they took a step back from him. “You should surrender, but if you don’t, you can have the embrace of the flames.” He ‘smiled’ at them, as while he knew it was best if they surrendered, surely a little flames couldn’t hurt, right?
He was in the minority on that, as most of the villains surrendered then and there, raising their hands and getting to their knees, some going as far as lying on their stomachs, their legs and arms spread. If Izuku could do it, he would have pouted as Koharu snorted.
"Useless." The hand villain, one of the few that didn't cower to his power, muttered as he felt his anger and disgust for these gutter punks rise. What, did they think this would be easy? Next time, he'll need to ensure his grunts have higher confidence points.
Knocking aside a villain who stood against him, Vlad took a deep breath as his quirk's limits approached, but he didn't falter. "You should do the same since your crime against humanity has been handled." Instead of anger or defeat from the lone villain of any real threat level, the hand villain seemed to smile in glee.
"True, it's gone down, but whoever said it had just the one health bar?" He asked them both, which left them confused before Koharu screamed for Izuku to move; the next movement, he felt a heavy impact on his back, shattering his scales, digging through his volcanic innards and piercing out his front. Stunned, he slowly looked at the object to see that it was the arm of that Nomu, burnt but whole.
“Im-impossible," He uttered as Vlad screamed something, but he didn't hear it; his attention went to the beast that, against all odds, was still alive! All the damage from his fire was gone, as if it was never there, which didn't make sense; not even he healed that fast, and the flames were the reason he healed!
Screeching like a demon thrown into a woodchipper, the Nomu reached for his body, not caring or incapable of feeling its arm being burnt, which was essentially partly submerged in lava. Without thinking, Izuku increased his temperate, nearly doubling it as a heat pulse shot out, forcing some to blink and look away. The Nomu got the worst of it as its pants started to smoulder. In contrast, its flesh started popping, the arm still in him rapidly burning up.
To counter this, with the bit of time it still had with its arm attached, the Nomu lot lost an ear-piercing shriek before its other arm grabbed Izuku's side and pulled its arms apart with Izuku's torso in the middle and to the horror of all but one watching, Izuku was ripped in two.
Letting out of grasp, Izuku felt...nothing, as his lower section fell to the floor, where from it, his lava blood flowed freely and became so cool now that it disconnected from his body. The same could be said for his top half as chunks of his innards, the closest thing he had to organs in this form, came loose from the damage, the lower parts dropping to the floor with a sizzling splat. The boy felt pain, a piercing, overwhelming pain through his body. Still, it overloaded his system, leaving him playing catch-up to all as he felt weaker, weaker than he had ever felt; it was a struggle to remain awake as his mind started to shut down.
Its job done, the Nomu tossed him aside like garbage, with him smacking into the ground and rolling a couple times, leaving a trail of emerald lava before he came to a stop, barely alive as his fiery eyes started to dim.
“Midoriya!” Vlad cried for the 3rd time but got no response from his student even as his snake fretted over him, but what could she do? He, he was bisecting like one would pull apart a piece of meat. His moment of distress would cost him as the hand villain moved in, his hand managing to grab hold of one of his gauntlets, which started to decay and break through to his flesh as the man kicked him away on instinct. Inspecting the damage, he saw his support item for drawing up from was totalled and that this punk's quirk had got as far as the first layer of muscle, explaining the stinging pain.
The villain laughed at the sight before him, not even caring that he got kicked in the gut. Sure, most of his grunts had turned out to be pussies, but what did he get in return? A beautifully brutal murder of one of U.A.'s precious students, one of the stronger ones if he had to bet to boot. And a teacher at half strength, even if he was fresh to the fight as he had used a lot of blood so far, there was only so much he could have left.
"You, you monster," Vlad said with nothing but contempt, keeping his attention on this threat. However, his mind still couldn't get over Midoriya, how he failed him, and because of that, he was dead, if not dying a horrific death.
At such an accusation, the bastard didn’t even appear to have remorse. “I am, but as fun as it would be to decay you some more,” His eye looked before Vlad right as a shadow fell over him. “I’m not the final boss.” Looking back, he saw that the monster that killed his student had gotten behind him faster than he could see it; its body nearly completely healed, including its arm, which should have been nothing but charred flesh and bone.
He tried to swing his arm, using the blood from his wound to create a spear to fend it off. Still, quick as a flash, it shattered the weapon before it could finish forming and grabbed onto his face, driving it into the pavement with a hard crack, but if that was the concrete or his skull was a thought that his terrified students, still hidden, couldn't answer. Nor could they answer for the sounds that followed.
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Back at the entrance, Kurogiri found himself countered by Thirteen, as no matter how much he expanded his quirk, it was all sucked in. "What an astonishing quirk, Black Hole. Everything that it sucks is crushed, turned to dust." Kurogiri complimented her, but his eyes narrowed with amusement.
"But, as great the quirk, it's only as good as the user, and you, Thirteen, are a rescue specialist, which means you only have half as much experience in a fight as a normal hero!" He stated, opening a small portal in his front, which was connected to nothing until he created its opening behind Thirteen, who immediately felt the effects of her quirk pulling her in.
“A warp gate?!" She yelled as she tried to stand her ground, lest she gets sucked in, but that meant her suit. Then her body started to be pulled apart by the overwhelming force of her quirk, pieces of her suit, gear and flesh pulled into the dread of the students remaining.
“Such a simple move that most would have seen coming and prepared for, but not you, rescue hero. And because of that," Kurogiri mocked as she shut off her quirk. However, even that few seconds of exposure took a heavy toll as she struggled to stand before falling onto her front. "You've turned yourself to dust."
“Sensei!” Awase cried.
"Dammit, Kaibara, you need to run now!" Kendo, despite how scared she was and how she felt panic at the sight of their teacher, a pro at that taken out so quickly, still took charge of the situation. She had to if they were to escape this place with their lives.
“What the hell, this is some bullshit!” Kaibara, knowing that the situation was dire if he didn't, yelled out as he took off, his spiralling feet carrying him faster than if he tried to run normally. Kurogiri, now free to act, turned his way and stretched to capture him. If he couldn't send him to a zone to be handled by the villains he warped in earlier, he could easily make a portal at the top of the USJ and watch him plummet to his death.
“We’re only here for All Might. It would be a pain for the other teachers to get involved, so I can’t let you get them.” Kurogiri stated, stretching over to block Kaibara’s path.
'Shit, everyone! I can't get caught when they're all counting on me!' The bot thought to himself, sweating from the stress and fear of getting caught and failing when so many of his classmates were still in danger.
“Thud!” Fukidashi yelled out, creating that word effect between Kaibara and Kurogiri, giving Kaibara the chance to keep running. “Like we’ll let you stop him!” Kurogiri's eyes narrowed as he moved to strike from another angle, but he got tagged by two horns.
“Have some of this!” Tsunotori yelled in English, two more horns coming for him, which he deflected with his portals, but Kendo was next as she came in with an enlarged fist.
"Like we're letting you!" Kendo yelled, striking him in the neck brace, stunning him and nearly causing the villain to black out. His gear cracked under the impact of the blow, forcing him to retreat in haste. "Looks like I was right; you do have a physical body under there!" Kendo yelled, not giving him an inch as Awase came running up, loose rock fused together into a crude club.
“And that means we can attack it!” The bandana-wearing boy tried to swing for Kurogiri's neck. Still, the villain dodged, creating a portal that Awase nearly fell through, if not for Tsunotori’s horn coming in and pulling him back.
“Cursed brats!” Kurogiri turned and saw that Kaibara was running like the devil was chasing him. This wasn't far from the truth, as he wouldn't let this brat ruin the master's plans! But as he tried to counter the students, he was splashed with glue. Was this glue?
“Or trap you!” Bondo cheered as while the glue didn't harden, it slowed the villain down as it stuck to everything; Kurogiri only had a moment to see the boy with the speech bubble head gearing up for another attack.
“Boom!” Fukidashi yelled out. Kurogiri, not leaving this to chance, created a wide portal between him and the world. The portal exploded on impact with the ground, but he sent the blast back on them as the students screamed, and some were sent flying.
"Aim for his neck; it's his weak point!” Kendo, who had anchored herself to the floor by digging her oversized fingers into it, yelled out as Kuroiro threw something at Kurogiri, angling it over the portal barrier.
“Release.” With that, Kodai turned the stone into a boulder, catching the wide-eyed villain off guard as he barely dodged that assault.
“Do you ducklings think you can defeat me?” Kurogiri, usually the calm one in the League, growled in anger at these brats getting in the way!
"Maybe not, but we don't need to," Kendo smirked as Kaibara reached the entrance. With a yell fuelled by determination, anger, and fear, he drove his spinning hands into the door to try to make handles for him to pull open.
“We just need to keep you busy.” Trying to get past these brats and their games, Fukidashi created another wall of words, which he tried to get around via a portal, only for Awase to jump him and fuse his collar to part of it. The human drill, for his part, wasn't stopping; even as it started to hurt, he put even more effort into it, and with his arms screaming in pain, he managed to create handholds and pull as hard as he could.
His efforts weren't in vain, nor were those of his classmates, as even as Kurogiri freed himself from his little capture, Kaibara started to see the light peaking through the doors. "A little, just a little more, dammit!" He ground his teeth as he felt his arms burning, but he got it. It wasn't much, but it was enough for him to squeeze through, narrowly avoiding Kurogiri's last attempt to catch him as he stumbled but righted himself. Without looking back, he rushed off towards the school.
His thoughts were on his classmates, not knowing that many of them were still fighting if they had not already cleared their obstacles and were making their way over to the plaza, as with Honenuki and Tetsutetsu. Yanagi and Kamakiri were just about finishing up the stranglers in the Downpour zone, the two working together excellently. But some were in a pickle as Tsuburaba got caught with his guard down and was now being held as a hostage against the rest of them.
Cursing the situation, Kurogiri knew he couldn't go after him now, not if that meant leaving these brats behind who could escape without his knowledge. "It's game over." He muttered to himself, as he knew that the young master wouldn't be pleased with this at all, so he did what he could do, concede defeat to these brats and retreat to inform Shigaraki of their problem.
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That luck wasn’t universal as back in the plaza, Shiozaki, Shishida, and Tokage had to cover their gasps and screams lest they be heard as the Nomu effortlessly broke Vlad's arm., meanwhile the body of their friend, someone that was so bright and happy, lay on its back, its lower half missing as the lava that flowed through him like blood continues to leak out, cooling as time went by as his body and soul started to die.
Barely holding in his screams from being any louder than they already were, Vlad was forced to listen to this villain gloat. "You can control your blood and make anything you want with it; combined with your years of experience in brawls, it makes you one of the worst people to fight as every little cut is a new means to attack, a new attack pattern to figure out." He stated as the Nomu pressed harder on Vlad, who could feel his ribs start to bend as this…thing sat on him.
"Pretty great, but unlike Nomu, you don't have enough of a health bar or super regeneration to compensate for lost blood. Use too much, and you will start taking damage yourself." The villain laughed, finding this entire situation funny.
"It's not a bad kid, not a bad character design either. But against our bioengineered Nomu, you might as all be a level one noob. After all," His gaze, along with Vlad's, went towards his student whose pet snake continued to fret over. "Not even that surprise fire demon was enough to take on Nomu."
"Bastard...!" Vlad ground out, willing the blood from his broken arm into a spear to fire at the covered villain. Still, Nomu intercepted it, and he got rewarded for his efforts when it stomped on his leg, breaking it; this time, he couldn't hold back the cry of pain. "You, you're not going to get away with this. You'll pay for the blood you've slipped!"
The villain laughed in his face at that. "I've been just that for years. It might be a big day for you and your brats, us showing and tearing up the place, but for me, it's just an exciting Friday."
That statement, more than anything else, made the students still in hiding terrified to get out, being paralysed with fear as sure, the other villains had meant them harm, but none had been so twisted and gleeful in it that they could call this hell they made 'an exciting Friday.' But Tokage knew that they had to act; she had sent an eye over the plaza, and she knew that both Hebimi and Vlad would die. Tokage was sweating up a storm as she recalled how she got her recommendation, how she moved without thinking and how she should be doing that now, asking herself why she had to before anyone else got hurt.
And that will be what it is for this chapter. Rare that I managed one which covered everything I wanted, especially that little part where Izuku should have made sure Nomu was down for the count. But there lay the question of what comes after and how he returns from this.
Now, usually, I'll say that the next chapter will be out next week, but not this time as with assignments needing my attention, I can't have my grades slip-you understand, I'm forced to say that rather than April 2nd as the next upload, I’m forced to push this to April 9th. It's not an idea, and I don't like it as much as I enjoy writing. This is my hobby, but it's a compromise I have to make. I hope that you all stick with it through that time.
